Signature Spring Event

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is with heavy hearts that we have decided to cancel our annual spring signature event, Standing with Immigrants, scheduled for May 5, 2020.We will be rescheduling the event for May 2021.

While we were looking forward to gathering with you to celebrate the accomplishments of our incredible pro bono and community partners, the safety, security and well-being our staff, volunteers, and supporters are our top priority.

For those who haven’t yet committed or bought tickets, you can still make a fully tax-deductible donation to Ayuda! The CARES Act has generous new tax benefits for charitable donations. All donations enable Ayuda to continue our critical work to support low-income immigrants in D.C., Virginia and Maryland.

From the Ayuda family to yours, we send you strength during these trying times.

Ayuda has been helping low income immigrants in the Washington metropolitan region access justice, stop abuses, find safety, heal from trauma, overcome language isolation, and restore and rebuild their lives, for 47 years.

Since 1973, Ayuda has helped more than 100,000 immigrants and their families address obstacles to thriving and succeeding in the United States. Ayuda is a pioneer in providing holistic culturally and linguistically appropriate legal, social, language access and other groundbreaking programs to meet the emerging needs of immigrants in the community.

Because of the support of our donors, our doors are always open. Our staff are experts in their fields and live Ayuda’s mission in their hearts. Our immigrant clients may have limited incomes and language skills but they have unyielding desire to do better for themselves and their families, to share their heritage with joy and pride, and to give of themselves as members of our communities. Ayuda stands with them.

Our signature spring event, Standing with Immigrants, is all about supporting immigrants rebuild and transform their lives. The funds raised through the generosity of our supporters will enable Ayuda to sustain and expand its vital legal, social and language access services, and will directly impact the lives of low-income immigrants in D.C., Virginia and Maryland.

We will always be there for immigrants, and ask you to join us on Tuesday, May 5.

What:

Standing with Immigrants: Awards Program and Reception

When:

Tuesday, May 5, 2020, 6 PM to 9:30 PM

Where:

Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008

About the Venue:

The Cosmos Club, founded in 1878, is a private social club for men and women distinguished in science, literature and the arts, a learned profession or public service. Members come from virtually every profession that has anything to do with scholarship, creative genius or intellectual distinction.

Among its members have been three Presidents, two Vice Presidents, a dozen Supreme Court justices, 36 Nobel Prize winners, 61 Pulitzer Prize winners and 55 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Standing with Immigrants is a major signature fundraising event for Ayuda. To enable Ayuda to sustain and expand its important legal, social and language access services, we invite you to join Standing with Immigrants as a sponsor. The funds raised through your generosity will directly impact the lives of vulnerable, low-income immigrants in Washington, D.C, Virginia and Maryland. Please submit a sponsorship form to Laura Trask at Laura.Trask@ayuda.com Sponsorship opportunities are available at the following levels:

Strengthening Communities Sponsor $50,000

Title/presenting sponsor of the event

Exclusive press release on sponsorship of event

25 sponsor guest admissions

Opportunity for Honorary chair listing on the Steering Committee (company to determine name to be listed: CEO, President, C-suite level executive name, executive)

Company included in digital annual report

Access to VIP Reception (date TBD)

Prominent logo placement in event electronic display panel at event

Major placement of advertisement in digital event program

Recognition in remarks at the event

Recognition in all printed an electronic event material

Logo/name placement on Ayuda website and social media

Listed at $50K level on Ayuda donor webpage

Complimentary invitations to other signature events throughout the year

Recognized as sponsor on event webpage and additional event materials

Realizing Dreams Sponsors $25,000

25 sponsor guest admissions

Opportunity for listing on the Steering Committee (company to determine name to be listed: CEO, President, C-suite level executive name, executive)

Access to VIP Reception (date TBD)

Prominent logo placement in electronic display panel at event

Major placement of advertisement in digital event program

Recognition in remarks at the event

Recognition in all printed an electronic event material

Recognized as sponsor on event webpage and additional event materials

Rebuilding Faith Sponsors $15,000

18 sponsor guest admissions

Opportunity for listing on the Steering Committee (company to determine name to be listed: CEO, President, C-suite level executive name, executive)

2020 Pro Bono Impact Award

Ayuda’s Pro Bono Award recognizes a firm or company that has made a special and significant contribution to Ayuda’s legal pro bono program in the past year. DLA Piper has demonstrated a staunch commitment to Ayuda’s mission and clients through extraordinary pro bono representation as part of Ayuda’s pro bono program.

2020 Lifetime Legacy Award

Matt Kelly, CEO of JBG SMITH

Matt Kelly is the CEO of JBG SMITH and a member of the board of trustees. Prior to the formation of JBG SMITH, Matt served as a Managing Partner of the JBG Companies and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and Investment Committee. He previously was co-head of JBG’s Investments Group and was primarily responsible for investment strategy and the investment and acquisition activity of the JBG Investment Funds. Prior to joining the JBG Companies in 2004, he was a co-founder of ODAC Inc., a media software company, and worked in private equity and investment banking with Thomas H. Lee Partners in Boston and Goldman Sachs, & Co in New York.

2020 Keynote Speaker

José Antonio Tijerino, President and CEO of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation

José Antonio Tijerino is president and CEO of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation, which focuses on education, workforce, leadership, and culture through service and innovation. Under Tijerino, HHF is recognized as a creative, agile, impact-focused organization boasting a network of 150,000 vetted 15-35 year old Latinos mobilized in the tech and STEM fields, entrepreneurship, finance, media, and other priority areas for America.

Tijerino also serves as executive producer of the star-studded Hispanic Heritage Awards at the Kennedy Center, which are broadcast on PBS stations. HHF’s dynamic programs have been recognized by The White House, US Congress, Fortune 500 companies, other nonprofits, and the Government of Mexico.

For their safety, security and well-being, all Ayuda staff, interns and volunteers will be teleworking until further notice. We will continue to support our clients during this difficult time, but we need your help.

Your gift today will help fund our critical work to provide quality legal services, comprehensive social services and language access services to low-income immigrants in D.C., Virginia and Maryland.

In a time of social distancing and isolation, it is more important than ever that we come together and let the most vulnerable in our community know they are not alone.

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is with heavy hearts that we have decided to cancel our annual spring signature event, Standing with Immigrants, scheduled for May 5, 2020.We will be rescheduling the event for May 2021.

While we were looking forward to gathering with you to celebrate the accomplishments of our incredible pro bono and community partners, the safety, security and well-being our staff, volunteers, and supporters are our top priority.

For those who haven’t yet committed or bought tickets, you can still make a fully tax-deductible donation to Ayuda! The CARES Act has generous new tax benefits for charitable donations. All donations enable Ayuda to continue our critical work to support low-income immigrants in D.C., Virginia and Maryland.

From the Ayuda family to yours, we send you strength during these trying times.